This is how the Deep State crushes disobedience by the unwashed American public. It indicts not only ham sandwiches but, apparently, political infants in diapers too, if that's what it takes. Hence the sudden notoriety of Baby George Papadopoulos, who pled guilty to...
Month: October 2017
How to End the Endless War
by Stephen Kinzer | Oct 31, 2017 | Featured Articles
Wars that the United States is waging around the world undermine our security by turning entire populations against us and diverting our attention and resources away from urgent needs at home. No, the opposite is true: the United States faces serious threats, and can...
Do We Need A New War Authorization?
by Daniel McAdams | Oct 31, 2017 | The Liberty Report
Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) challenged the Defense Secretary and Secretary of State yesterday, asserting that no one of intellectual honesty would believe that the 9/11 war authorization had anything to do with ISIS or Niger. He has a good point. But the White House does...
NATO Threatens Turkey…
by Daniel McAdams | Oct 30, 2017 | The Liberty Report
Turkey's decision to purchase a Russian S-400 surface-to-air missile system has raised more than eyebrows at NATO headquarters. Top brass in Brussels has warned Turkey that its system would not be interoperable with NATO's US-made system. Is Turkey turning away from...
The Congressman Who Has Sent Thousands of Letters to Families of US Troops Killed in Wars
by Adam Dick | Oct 30, 2017 | Congress Alert
On a Sunday morning more than two weeks after four U.S. soldiers were ambushed and killed in Niger, Rep. Walter Jones sat at the desk in his North Carolina office, doing what he’s done more than 11,000 times in 14 years: signing letters to families of the dead troops....
Neocons Hijack Trump’s Syria Policy
by Ron Paul | Oct 30, 2017 | Featured Articles
Does anyone in the Trump Administration have a clue about our Syria policy? In March, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson appeared to be finally pulling back from President Obama’s disastrous “Assad must go” position that has done nothing but prolong the misery in Syria....
The Rise of MEK/NCRI in Washington: Pay Off The Right People and You Are No Longer A Terrorist
by Philip Giraldi | Oct 30, 2017 | Featured Articles
If you want to change a group of terrorists who have killed American overseas into something that appears to be much more benign, all you have to do is pay off the right people in Washington. With enough money, you can even open a nice plush lobbying office on...
In Shocking, Viral Interview, Qatar Confesses Secrets Behind Syrian War
by Tyler Durden | Oct 29, 2017 | Featured Articles
A television interview of a top Qatari official confessing the truth behind the origins of the war in Syria is going viral across Arabic social media during the same week a leaked top secret NSA document was published which confirms that the armed opposition in Syria...
Deciphering Trump’s Foreign Policy
by Oscar Silva-Valladares | Oct 28, 2017 | Featured Articles
Donald Trump’s presidency, like preceding ones, is trapped by the interests of the power elite that has ruled America since World War II. The constraints imposed on domestic policy by this elite inevitably have a direct impact on America’s foreign policy. Alternative...
Russia-gate Breeds ‘Establishment McCarthyism’
by Robert Parry | Oct 27, 2017 | Featured Articles
In the past, America has witnessed “McCarthyism” from the Right and even complaints from the Right about “McCarthyism of the Left.” But what we are witnessing now amid the Russia-gate frenzy is what might be called “Establishment McCarthyism," traditional...
Twitter Rescues American Democracy By Banning Ads From RT And Sputnik
by Caitlin Johnstone | Oct 27, 2017 | Featured Articles
Twitter has announced today that it will no longer be accepting advertisements from Russian outlets RT and Sputnik, thereby protecting Americans from consuming advertisements by propaganda outlets other than CNN, Fox, MSNBC, the New York Times, the Wall Street...
Congress Passes ‘Harshest’ Sanctions On North Korea…And The People Suffer
by Daniel McAdams | Oct 26, 2017 | The Liberty Report
On Tuesday, all but two Members of the US House voted in favor of the "harshest" sanctions on North Korea yet. As we know from past practice with sanctions -- in Iraq and elsewhere -- they never achieve their goals, but they do punish civilians and turn them against...
US Allows Saudi Arabia To Plant Wahhabi Seed In Raqqa Rubble
by Whitney Webb | Oct 26, 2017 | Featured Articles
Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri, picture right, meets with Saudi Arabia’s Arab Gulf Affairs Minister Thamer al-Sabhan in Beirut, Lebanon on February 6 2017. The fight to free the Syrian city of Raqqa from Daesh (ISIS) — by the Kurdish-dominated Syrian Democratic...
Jeff Flake and The DC Impasse: Who’s At Fault?
by Daniel McAdams | Oct 25, 2017 | The Liberty Report
Sen. Jeff Flake (R-AZ) told the Senate yesterday that he would not seek another term in the US Senate because he could no longer be part of the "discord and dysfunction" of Washington, DC. "[W]e have given in or given up on the core principles in favor of a more...
Are Republicans Libertarians?
by Laurence M. Vance | Oct 25, 2017 | Featured Articles
Our two-party system makes it almost impossible for libertarians to get elected to office, especially on the national level. In order for libertarians to get elected to Congress, their best bet is to run as a Republican. Ron Paul is a perfect example of this. But...
US House Passes INTERDICT Act, Plodding Forward with Destructive War on Drugs
by Adam Dick | Oct 25, 2017 | Congress Alert
The United States House of Representatives approved on Tuesday, by a vote of 412 to three, the INTERDICT Act (HR 2142) that ramps up US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) efforts to interdict fentanyl and other substances related to illegal drugs upon entry to...
The Harmful Effects of Antifa
by Diana Johnstone | Oct 25, 2017 | Featured Articles
An historic opportunity is being missed. The disastrous 2016 presidential election could and should have been a wakeup call. A corrupt political system that gave voters a choice between two terrible candidates is not democracy. This should have been the signal to face...
Mutual Assured Destruction: Missile Defense Might be a Lie
by Philip Giraldi | Oct 24, 2017 | Featured Articles
Sometimes it is possible to read or view something that completely changes the way one looks at things. I had that experience last week when I read an article at Lobelog entitled “A Plea for Common Sense on Missile Defense,” written by Joe Cirincione, a former staffer...
In A Dramatic Pivot, Shia Militia Leader Tells US: ‘Get Ready To Leave Iraq’
by Tyler Durden | Oct 24, 2017 | Featured Articles
A prominent Iraqi militia leader with close ties to Iran has told the United States to go home while also accusing US forces of not actually being interested in fighting ISIS: “Your forces should get ready to get out of our country once the excuse of Daesh’s presence...
Pentagon Expands ‘Terror War’ To Africa: Where Is Congress?
by Daniel McAdams | Oct 24, 2017 | The Liberty Report
Senator Lindsey Graham told NBC News over the weekend that he had "no idea" that there were 1,000 US troops in Niger. But it didn't bother him at all. He promised that the US military -- which already has troops in 53 of the 54 countries in Africa -- will soon be far...
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